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30-Oct-2017

Robotics principles help Sandia wave energy converters better absorb power of ocean waves

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Compared to wind and solar energy, wave energy has remained relatively expensive and hard to capture, but engineers from Sandia National Laboratories are working to change that by drawing inspiration from other industries. Sandia's engineering team has designed, modeled and tested a control system that doubles the amount of power a wave energy converter can absorb from ocean waves, making electricity produced from wave energy less expensive.

Funder

Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office

26-Oct-2017

Seven Los Alamos scientists honored as APS Fellows

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Seven scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory were tapped this year as new Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS), a significant honor for the Laboratory and its people. The honorees are Christopher J. Fontes, Han Htoon, Toshihiko Kawano, John W. Lewellen, Laura Beth Smilowitz, Stuart A. Trugman and Vivien Zapf.

25-Oct-2017

New fractal-like concentrating solar power receivers are better at absorbing sunlight

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories engineers have developed new fractal-like, concentrating solar power receivers for small- to medium-scale use that are up to 20 percent more effective at absorbing sunlight than current technology. The receivers were designed and studied as part of a Laboratory Directed Research and Development project and are also being applied to Sandia's work for the Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States, or SERIIUS.

Funder

DOE/US Department of Energy, Government of India

24-Oct-2017

Sandia's international peer mentorship program improves biorisk management

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories' international peer mentoring program pairs experienced biosafety professionals from developed countries with their counterparts in the developing world.

19-Oct-2017

'Impactful Times' tells story of decades of Sandia shock physics research

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A new book by Sandia National Laboratories researchers describes shock physics research at Sandia from its early history to today. Speeding bullets practically stand still compared to impact velocities achieved in shock physics studies.

19-Oct-2017

Sandia Labs team continues to quantify fatigue using wearables

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

The R2R WATCH (Rim-to-Rim Wearables at the Canyon for Health) study, a collaborative project between Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico.

18-Oct-2017

Reducing power plants' freshwater consumption with Sandia's new silica filter

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Power plants draw more freshwater than any other consumer in the United States, accounting for more than 50 percent of the nation's freshwater use at about 500 billion gallons daily. To help save this water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new silica filter for power plant cooling waters that decreases the amount of freshwater power plants consume by increasing the number of times cooling tower water can be reused and recycled.

17-Oct-2017

Los Alamos researchers and supercomputers help interpret the latest LIGO findings

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Astrophysicist Chris Fryer was enjoying an evening with friends on Aug. 25, 2017, when he got the news of a gravitational-wave detection by LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory.

Journal

Nature

16-Oct-2017

Chemical treatment improves quantum dot lasers

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

One of the secrets to making tiny laser devices such as opthalmic surgery scalpels work even more efficiently is the use of tiny semiconductor particles, called quantum dots. In new research at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nanotech Team, the ~nanometer-sized dots are being doctored, or 'doped,' with additional electrons, a treatment that nudges the dots ever closer to producing the desired laser light with less stimulation and energy loss.

Journal

Nature Nanotechnology

12-Oct-2017

Sandia's Direct Numerical Simulations enhance combustion efficiency, reduces pollution

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia researchers use Direct Numerical Simulations to enhance efficiency, reduce pollution in diesel engines.

Journal

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute